On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > I have seen issues with this. It might be good for the general case of > apt where you see what the failure is and can retry if needed. But in > the US it caused me some aborted installations because there was some > mirror in the rotation that was broken. debian-installer - I guess in > this case debootstrap - does not retry a broken file. (apt also doesn't > do that but it's harder to figure out in d-i what's going on.)
I helped improve this problem a couple years ago [0]. I guess that's not totally solved, or maybe httpredir causes different behavior. That is not something I've yet looked at, but I should. debootstrap's current design is to retry package downloads up to 10 times, and then give up entirely on bootstrapping. That seems like it should be robust, but maybe not. Relatedly apt < 1.1~exp9 will often run into problems with httpredir as source, so it is you could have run into that once past debootstrap. Best wishes, Mike [0] https://bugs.debian.org/618920
